HOUSE  OF  REPRESENTATIYES,  January  2,  le65.-Order- 

ed  to  be  printed. 

[By  Mr.  Norton. 


AMENDMENT 

To  Section  3rd  of  the   Bill  to  be  entitled   An  Act  to  authorise  the 
consolidation  of  companies,  battalions  and  regiments. 

1  After  the  word  "rolls"  in  the  fourth   line,  gtrike   out  to  the 

2  fourteenth  line,  and  insert,   "officers  who  shall    thus  lose  their 

3  rank,  and  all  other  company,  battalion,  regimental,  post  or  de- 

4  partment  officers,  (except  prisoners  of  war,)  not  assigned  to  duty, 

5  who  do  not  elect  to  serve  in  some  company  thus  consolidated  or 

6  previouslf  established,  shall  have  the   privilege,  within   sixty 

7  days,  of  forming  themselves  into  companies,  battalions  or  regi- 

8  ment8,  at  such  time  and  place  as  the  commander  of  their  respec- 

9  tive  departments  shall  direct.     The  organization  thus  composed 

10  shall  be  known  and  designated  as  the   "  Confederate  States  Le- 

11  gion  of  Honor;"    said   Legion  of   ITonor  shall    be   officered 

12  by  election    from  its  own  members,  with  the  approval  of  the 

13  President,  by  and  with  the  advice  and  consent  of  the  Senate; 

14  each  member  thereof  being  entitled  to  wear  such  "  decoration" 

15  u  shall  be  prescribed    for  this- corps.     Said  organization  to 

16  equipped   in   the    nost  approved    style,    and   so  armed    and 
IT  totructed,   as  to   insure    it    the   greatest  military    efficiei 

18  aid    shall    serve    in    separate    detachments,    or    oollectively, 


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19  or    in    conjunction    with    other    commands    subject    to    the 

20  regulators  for  the  government  of  troops  of  a  like  arm,  and  in 

21  such  district  or  department,  under  such  orders  and  commander 

22  as  the  Commander  in  Chief  of  the  Confederate  States  armies 

23  •  may  direct ;    Provided,  That  officers  who  may  select   and  serve 

24  in  other  cenimands,  and  officers,  non-commissioned  officers  and 

25  soldiers  in  rny  part  of  the  army,  who  have,  or  may  hereafter, 
2G  specially  distinguish  themselves  in  action,  shall   be  considered 

27  members  of  the  Legion  of  Honor,  and  be  entitled  to  its  decora - 

28  tiors  in  their  several  commands.     Provided  further.  That  able 

29  bodied  officers  on  post,  staff  or  department  duty,  who  may   re- 

30  sign  their  positions  in  favor  of  disabled  officers,  shall   be  enti- 

31  tied  to  all  the  privileges  of  this  section,  and  any  member  of  the 

32  Legion  of  Honor  who  may  become  permanently  disabled,  may, 

33  at  the  discretion  of  the  department  commander  and  the  consent 

34  of  the  President,  be  restored  to  his  original  rank,  and  be  assign- 

35  ed  to  any  vacancy  in  post,  staff  or  department  service,  for  which 

36  he  may  be  found  qualified. 


